the voice of the man who said 'Stand and deliver!' is proof. I
doubt if anyone could swear that, when he only heard three words,
he was absolutely sure that it was the voice of a man he had not seen
for some years. However, fortunately, that will make no difference;
the man is, as I told you, wanted for his heading the mutiny in the
convict prison at Sydney, which will be quite sufficient to hang
him without this business. But I own that I should prefer that
he were hung for my father's murder if we could secure sufficient
evidence. Moreover, there is the attack upon us three or four
months ago, and with the evidence of the surgeon who attended him
as to his wound, that would be enough to hang him. But we have first
got to catch him, and that I mean to make my business, however long
the search may take me."

"Was anything taken last night, sir?"

"I don't know; I did not look. We shall see to that when we go
upstairs. We may as well go indoors now; Sir Charles may be here
in a few minutes, and I want to hear Dr. Holloway's report as to
Mr. Bastow."

"He does not suspect, I hope, sir?"

"No, thank God; my father never mentioned to him anything he
heard about his son, or his suspicions, therefore he has no reason
to believe that the fellow is not still in the convict prison at
Sydney. We shall keep it from him now, whatever happens; but it
would, for his sake, be best that this shock should prove too much
for him. He has had a very hard time of it altogether."